How To Remove Glued Hardwood Floor Without Damage

Use a carpenter s square to mark a perpendicular line across the section of the board to be removed.

How to remove glued hardwood floor without damage. You can try just one piece to see if you can successfully remove one. Gently lift off the tile from the underlying glue. Can you remove a tongue and groove hardwood floor without damaging the planks then reinstall in another location. You ll need to gently pry loose each board enough to allow for the saw blade to fit between the flooring and subfloor joist.

If you re removing the entire strip skip this step. Apply a small amount of de greaser to the floor and scrub it thoroughly. Removing engineered hardwood glued directly to concrete. Use a wood chisel to split the damaged board into two pieces.

Best to get a floor specialist to do it else you may damage the hardwood flooring. First set the blade depth on your circular saw. Once done repeat with another cut in another seam. Pry up the remainder of the boards.

Use a sawz all or reciprocating saw to cut the nails below the finish flooring. Use a 1 2 or 3 8 inch diameter spade bit and power drill to drill holes along the marks. Because we re throwing out this old flooring we weren t picky about where we. If you can remove without damaging it then proceed with the others.

Try to keep the cut in the seams lines. Phoenix scottsdale gilbert peoria arizona. If it is hard to insert a pry bar under the tongue to begin removing the old hardwood floor you should use a circular saw equipped with a carbide blade to plunge cut between two boards near the tongue side of the wall. Use a de greaser to remove the oil.

You may need to repeat the process several times to remove all the oil. It is time consuming but can be done. Pull off the boards between the wall and the cut to expose the tongue edge. Our flooring is about 3 4 inches thick so i set the blade depth about 3 4 inches deep so that the blade cut through the hardwood floors without cutting into the plywood subfloor.

There may be residual glue left on the floor but it can be removed with a scraper or air chisel. Generally this is where the original installation started opposed to an opposite wall line that may have a partial board width. To remove glue down wood flooring pry the edges and pull it up. At one inconspicuous corner ply the tile off with a flat metal spatula.

Using a hammer drive the tip of a wood chisel between the flooring and subfloor to loosen the edge of the flooring. 2 remove the flooring with a hand held floor scraper after putting on work. Once you ve finished chances are you ll also be interested in installing new hardwood floors.